Thematic Issue: Environment and Health in China—I

摘要: Combining and solving environment health is a major issue in China—a country with tremendous economic development perspectives. Recent developments (e.g., the Tianjin Harbor accident August 2015) show that China investing more resources efforts to cope industrial (GDP) into alliancing environmental safeguarding. The Thematic Issue on Environment Health starting point for discussion of variety issues, such as distribution fractionation rare earth elements soil–water system human blood (Li et al. 2014a, b, c, d); spatial evaluation phosphorus retention riparian zones using remote sensing data concerning big scarce issues (Dong 2014); toxicity contamination soils plants status challenges water pollution problems China: learning from European experience (Zhou Heihe River basin (Xiao 2014), identifying interactions between river groundwater North Plain multiple tracers (Dun potential hazardous (PHEs) atmospheric particulate matter (APM) south Xi’an during dust episodes (2001–2012) chemical fractionation; ecological risk assessment d), occurrence hydrogeochemistry fluoride alluvial aquifer Weihe heavy metals Changqing park Baoji (Wang b); (Su sources transports polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Nanshan Underground River, (Alam introducing land-use-based analysis method soil 2013a, c);